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 Posted 10/27/2010  3:05 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add ibab to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
So apologies if this has been answered before, I searched, couldn't find it.

What is the best method you have found to store a large quantity of cents? Cloth sacks? 5 gallon buckets? jars, piggy banks, flat rate post office boxes, brinks bags, ziploc, rubbermaid storage totes

I was just curious as my save pile from the first batch was bigger than I was expecting.
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I have four or five thousand Wheats stored in ziplock bags (segregated by decade/mintmarks).....all of which are then put into a very large airtite hard plastic flip-lock container.

I no longer save "post-Wheat" Cents, unless they're in a high MS grade. And in these cases, I store them in "coin tubes". Yes I have a GAZILLION coin tubes, but they "store" rather nicely this way, and take up little room when put into old Cent bank boxes.

Mass/bulk storage does depend on what exactly you have, IMO, too.
Meaning, I wouldn't want my Wheats exposed to humidity/environmental dangers.
But, if you're just storing for "Pre-'82" Coppers sake.......any "jar" or "bucket" should do quite nicely.
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the wheats and BU (or looking like it) have been plucked, so its just the copper ones.

I filled more than a jar with the coppers so I was realizing that I would have more cents than jars...
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Roll them as you go is also an option
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yah I thought about that, I was just thinking that I would save them up for now and roll by date at a later time.
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Eaglefoot's method....you need to keep all air/moisture from getting to them or they will corrode.
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